Peggy Guggenheim
friend
American collector
Peggy and the Fucina
In 1961, through a friend, Egidio meets Peggy Guggenheim. With her help, financial too, he returns to art and shows his work all over the world: the Fucina degli Angeli comes back to life.
In 1964 she has the works of the Fucina shown in her own palazzo; the following year she opens to him the homes of men such as Nelson Rockefeller and the doors of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, where the exhibition that opened in July in Rome arrives in November.
“He is the only person in Venice since the 18th century who produces truly artistic ornamental glass”, she writes of him in 1967. Her museum keeps works by Egidio.